Intern - Banking Analyst at McKinsey & Company

Job description

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or Economics; Master's degree a plus
• 1- 2 years of work experience
• Experience with macroeconomics, as related to the financial sector (i.e. GDP, inflation, interest rate, unemployment trends and drivers, interrelations among key macroeconomic indicators, recent trends and key expectations)
• Familiarity with the operations of the financial sector
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High energy and "can-do "attitude
• Proactive and flexible approach to practice and team support
• Ability to work independently

Who You'll Work With

You'll work with our Panorama team in Nairobi. Panorama is part of McKinsey's New Ventures.

Panorama harnesses a blend of banking and financial data sources, including proprietary McKinsey data, to help clients identify opportunities, improve their financial planning or benchmark their performance.

McKinsey New Ventures fosters innovation driven by analytics, design thinking, mobile and social by developing new products/services and integrating them into our client work. It is helping to shift our model toward asset-based consulting and is a foundation for –and expands our investment in –our entrepreneurial culture. Through innovative software as a service solutions, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey.

As one of the fastest-growing parts of our firm, New Ventures has more than 1,500 dedicated professionals (including more than 800 analysts and data scientists) and we’re hiring more mathematicians, data scientists, designers, software engineers, product managers, client development managers and general managers.

What You'll Do

• You will frame McKinsey's view on the future of the banking sector.
• In this role you will manage the collection of actual and historical data for specific countries/ geographies covered by the Global Banking Pools (GBP), a banking market database. You will also review the data received for completeness and understand assumptions made when compiling the data set by working with GBP affiliates and validators in order to verify the numbers and make them coherent.
• You will forecast banking markets for individual countries and manage the process of uploading data and documents to GBPs intranet sites; collaborate with firm IT in the site's development.